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• Your own self-will and anxiety, your hurry and labor, disturb your peace and prevent Me from working in you. Look at the little flowers, in the serene summer days; they quietly open their petals, and the sun shines into them with its gentle influences. So I will do for you, if you will yield yourself to me.

  Gerhard Tersteegen

  Summer, God, Flower

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• As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Pain, Flower

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• Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Divinity, Take Me, Casts

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• Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world.

  Henry Miller

  Peace, May, Abiding

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.404, New Directions Publishing

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• They who reach down into the depths of life where, in the stillness, the voice of God is heard, have the stabilizing power which carries them poised and serene through the hurricane of difficulties.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Voice, Depth, Hurricanes

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• The wind may blow and then cease, and the sea shall swell and then weary, but the heart of life is a sphere quiet and serene, and the star that shines therein is fixed for evermore.

  Khalil

  Stars, Heart, Blow

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• All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man,- A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.

  Theodore Roethke

  Memories, Men, Shine On

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• The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it.

  Michael Josephson

  Motivational, Beautiful, Gratitude

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• Could you please put this--could you all put these--could you get dressed, please?" The woman only bestowed a serene smile on me. "We are as the Goddess requires." "The Goddess requires you to be naked on my lawn?

  Kelley Armstrong

  Naked, Goddess, Lawns

  Kelley Armstrong (2013). “Spellcasters: The Case of the Half-Demon Spy, Dime Store Magic, Industrial Magic, Wedding Bell Hell”, p.234, Vintage Canada

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• Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound but you couldn't fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer.

  Betty Smith

  Beautiful, Summer, New York

  Betty Smith (2009). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• …the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all modes and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquillity unbroken by fickle dreams.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Summer, Dream, Spring

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• Then in October, Indian Summer, the air turned so soft, the sunlight so fragile, and each day's loveliness so poignantly doomed that even self-ignorance and restlessness felt like profound states of being, and he just wandered the empty beaches and misty headlands in a state of serene confusion and awe.

  David James Duncan

  Summer, Beach, Ignorance

  David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.401, Dial Press

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• A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives.

  James Joyce

  Regret, Clouds, Leaving

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.137, Delphi Classics

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• It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Light, Color

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• The day may dawn when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth serene and triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair.

  Winston Churchill

  Ambition, Men, Play

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be Uranus, or it may be in the shutter.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sound, Ears, May

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• The moral task of man is a process of spiritualization. All creatures are go-betweens, and we are placed in time that by diligence in spiritual business we may grow liker and nearer to God. The aim of man is beyond the temporal - in the serene region of the everlasting Present.

  Meister Eckhart

  Spiritual, Men, Tasks

  "Meister Eckhart's Sermons". Book by Meister Eckhart, 1909.

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• Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts, and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon, that far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that world of waters.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ocean, Moon, Men

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• When I think of the flag.... I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes of blood to vindicate those rights, and then, in the corner, a prediction of the blue serene into which every nation may swim which stands for these great things.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Thinking, Rights, Blue

  Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stannard Baker, Howard Seavoy Leach (1926). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state; educational literary and political papers (1875-1913)”

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• There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Girl, Children, War

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• The only people I am aware of who don't have troubles are gathered in peaceful, little neighborhoods. There is never a care, never a moment of stress and never an obstacle to ruin a day. All is calm. All is serene. Most towns have at least one such worry-free zone. We call them cemeteries.

  Steve Goodier

  Stress, People, Worry

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• My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth.

  John Milton

  Men, Air, Earth

  1634 Comus, A Mask, opening lines.

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• Animals, like us, have rich and spacious interiors. They contain inner landscapes: desert places and lonely canyons, cliffs of madness and rivers or serene awareness that merge in tranquil seas.

  Gary A. Kowalski

  Inspirational, Motivational, Lonely

  Gary Kowalski (2007). “The Souls of Animals”, p.84, New World Library

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• Her court was pure, her life serene; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sad, Land, Claims

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.2, Cambridge University Press

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• All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene

  William Ellery Channing

  Wise, Noble, Enthusiasm

  William Ellery Channing, George Channing (1849). “(420 p.)”, p.60

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